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| African Methodist Episcopal Church | | Founded in 1816 by Richard Allen, Daniel Payne, William Paul Quinn and Henry Turner, the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E. Church), is the result of segregation within churches in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After seeing that Methodist and Episcopalian alike were being subjected to humiliation and segregation at their holiest of places, the Free African Society was founded. From this group, five churches joined together to form the fledgeling A.M.E. Church on April 9, 1816. Today, the church has congregations across the United States, in Canada, the Caribbean, in several African nations and the United Kingdom. |
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